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Originally posted by smiley21
I think everyone on that plane needs several drinks. One of the passengers said that because there are television screens in the plane, the passengers watched the whole landing on the news.  That would scare the living daylights out of me.
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Not quite. JetBlue's aircraft (which, by the way, are all named after a shade of blue or a play on words including blue - the aircraft in question is named
Canyon Blue) have a special version of DirecTV on board with individual seatback monitors. The passengers did see themselves on TV for a little while, until the system was turned off in the flight deck.
The landing gear performed as advertised - the tires and rims disintegrated in a shower of sparks as they dragged on the runway, since they're made of a magnesium alloy. Long landing; the captain kept the nose up as long as possible after touchdown to slow it down before setting it down on the busted nose gear.